it all started last friday when i noticed my eyes weren't quite right, i was finding it hard to focus on things, when i woke up in the morning i was getting that early morning, cant focus feeling but it was lasting all day, i thought i had an eye infection and it would go in a couple of days, then yesterday things got really bad, and i couldn't see out my left eye, everthing was just a blurr, my wife rang the docs and managed to get an appoinment late afternoon.
the doc did an eye test and with the right eye i could read most of the letters apart from the last two lines, then she said try the left eye and i couldnt even see the board, or her standing next to it!!!!!
she then told me to go stright to the hospital, where i had another examination and was told this could be serious, and i needed to go to cheltenham hospital to see the on call eye surgen, at this point all kinds of thinks are going through my head..
when i got there the eye doc called me in to have a look at my eyes, she then said you have a fully formed cataract in your left eye, 'what the bloody hells that' i ask, then she explained its a milky substance that covers the eye and stops you seeing, common in older people,as it takes 60/70 years to get progesively bad that it needs to be removed.
great im only 46, never wore glasses, allways where eye protection at work and i have a cataract that became fully formed in 7 days, the doc said she had only read about this happening in text books and had never seen it in real life, apparently it can happen but its extremely rare.
good news is it can be treated and i have to have an opperation on my eye to remave it in the next couple of weeks, and my eye will be good as new...
i am extremely relieved, as all sorts of things were going through my head, but one things for sure you can NEVER take your health for granted..
the doc did an eye test and with the right eye i could read most of the letters apart from the last two lines, then she said try the left eye and i couldnt even see the board, or her standing next to it!!!!!
she then told me to go stright to the hospital, where i had another examination and was told this could be serious, and i needed to go to cheltenham hospital to see the on call eye surgen, at this point all kinds of thinks are going through my head..
when i got there the eye doc called me in to have a look at my eyes, she then said you have a fully formed cataract in your left eye, 'what the bloody hells that' i ask, then she explained its a milky substance that covers the eye and stops you seeing, common in older people,as it takes 60/70 years to get progesively bad that it needs to be removed.
great im only 46, never wore glasses, allways where eye protection at work and i have a cataract that became fully formed in 7 days, the doc said she had only read about this happening in text books and had never seen it in real life, apparently it can happen but its extremely rare.
good news is it can be treated and i have to have an opperation on my eye to remave it in the next couple of weeks, and my eye will be good as new...
i am extremely relieved, as all sorts of things were going through my head, but one things for sure you can NEVER take your health for granted..
